Onyx

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Garrison Blackrock heads Onyx, a cutting-edge megacorporation that reverse-engineers and adapts Transformer technology for the personal market. Through this mission statement, Onyx has revolutionized the electronics industry with a bevy of tablets, networking sites, personal computers, and other electronic gizmos.

At least, that's what most people know about the company. Those in Blackrock's inner circle know that their eccentric founder has found more insidious applications for his marvelous technology, creating armies of man-made Transformers and even colluding with the Decepticons. Even fewer people are aware that Blackrock's business empire owes its origins to the legendary Enigma of Combination, a supernatural artifact capable of warping the fabric of the universe, and that Blackrock himself is not entirely of this Earth... even subconsciously naming his company after his former master.

Unlike many other companies, Onyx's products have not yet turned homicidal, so that's probably a good thing to put in their quarterly reports.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

The precise origins of Onyx are not entirely known. After arriving on Earth some years ago, the Titan Master Sovereign, in the guise of "Garrison Blackrock," began gathering Cybertronian artifacts at the behest of his master Onyx Prime, who had sent him to find and retrieve the Enigma of Combination. Perihelion "Blackrock" retrieved the Enigma of Combination before 2012 South of Heaven and, around that year, launched the Onyx corporation. He and several of his inner retinue tapped the powers of the Enigma to develop the sophisticated networking technologies that would launch the company to international stardom, ONoffON storing the Enigma and many of the other Cybertronian treasures Blackrock had gathered in a special vault in Wanmu, China. Vs.

In addition to cornering the civilian market with domestic robotic servants and social networking sites such as Onyx Blackbook, Future Glories Lost Onyx secretly moved into arms manufacturing, building advanced weaponry based off Cybertronian specifications. Signals, Calls, and Marches Onyx became one of the suppliers for the secret counter-terrorism unit G.I. Joe during its war against Cobra. White Light The mothballing of G.I. Joe led to Onyx transferring its support to General Witwicky's Earth Defense Command. Signals, Calls, and Marches

Seeking to further advance their studies into Cybertronian biology, Blackrock's company acquired the corpses of the Decepticons Ramjet and Thrust, and from their specifications developed an army of mass-produced Seeker clones. I Dream of Wires Using the Enigma, they were even able to upgrade several of them into full-fledged combiners. The Nothing Man On the side, Onyx also worked with China's People's Liberation Army Mecha Force, supplying them with transforming mechs of their own All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth while developing a wide variety of anti-Cybertronian weaponry should the Transformers ever return to Earth. Signals, Calls, and Marches

In 2014, a group of Decepticons led by Galvatron and Soundwave reopened contact with humanity, proposing a military alliance with the EDC in exchange for a new home away from Cybertron. Onyx thus funded the construction of Sanctuary Station, a "commune" over Jupiter for the Decepticons to call home. Vs.

Six months later, Onyx organized a press launch in Nikko, Japan, where they unveiled their latest development: the all-encompassing Onyx Interface, software that would revolutionize human computing. The press launch was interrupted by Spike Witwicky, who hacked the feed and revealed to the public that Onyx was making deals with Decepticons. Though Blackrock was able to restore control of the conference, he requested the presence of the EDC. Signals, Calls, and Marches

Shortly afterwards, Onyx's Wanmu facility was trashed by Devastator after their search for the Enigma of Combination led the Autobots and Decepticons to China, and as a result Blackrock released the Onyx Interface code onto every Onyx tablet across the globe: "infecting" them with programming derived from the Enigma's source code, and as a result spreading the energies of the Enigma across Earth. It's Beginning To And Back Again

By the time that Onyx finished construction on Sanctuary Station, South of Heaven Blackrock — tormented by doubts about whether or not he was truly human — had gone rogue; discovering that he could use the Onyx Interface to see the "souls" of every human on Earth, he was disturbed when he couldn't see his own soul. The Nothing Man

Though Blackrock was eventually unmasked as a mechanical imposter, he maintained his position as the company's CEO; some months later, he took custody of the mutated population of Verenya, storing them and the Talisman at the Onyx facility in Buenos Aires in the hopes that a cure could be found. Crisis Intervention When Eagles Scream Shortly afterwards, Blackrock used his Onyx connections to procure a set of custom-fitted booster wings for Kup so that the Autobot could fly to the Moon. Enter the Shadow

Once the Revolutionaries had captured Garrison Kreiger in Brasnya, they reconvened at the Buenos Aires facility with Sgt. Savage while awaiting a G.I. Joe pickup. Kreiger's lackey Centurion was able to hack the building's defenses, raising a forcefield and triggering the building's internal defenses. When Eagles Scream Despite the heroes' best efforts, the arrival of Optimus Prime and Metrotitan weren't enough to prevent Baron Ironblood from stealing the Talisman and escaping. Ghost in the Machine

Games

Transformers Roleplaying Game

The Onyx megacorporation handled a wide variety of interests, which included fossil fuel research, advanced medicine, and consumer electronics. The company was headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook

See also

• Blackrock Enterprises